Chatbot Bard, powered by Google’s (GOOG, GOOGL) generative AI, has some big updates as the company continues to move forward to reclaim its place as the go-to name for AI in Silicon Valley.
On Thursday, the tech giant announced that the chatbot will be available in more than 40 languages, including Arabic, Chinese and Spanish, and will be rolled out to additional regions, including Brazil and all of Europe.
Like Microsoft’s (MSFT)’s Bing and OpenAI’s ChatGPT, Google’s Bard was designed to provide conversational responses to queries ranging from feet in a mile to recaps of classic novels. It’s a chatbot.
According to Google, the bot allows users to adjust the tone of the responses they receive, such as making them sound more formal or less formal, and it can even play responses to requests out loud. . The company says voice response is available in more than 40 languages.
In addition to these updates, Bard users will be able to pin and rename conversations so they can save them to come back later and share responses more easily with friends and family. The app will allow a user to export type code written in Python to her Replit or Google Colab.
Perhaps most interesting is Google’s decision to allow users to import images into Bard. This will allow you to ask the bot questions and get an overview of what Bard is seeing.
Google’s Bard is separate from the company’s Search Generative Experience, an experimental version of Google Search that provides users with AI-generated responses to search requests.
Bard and Bing compete with traditional means of finding content online. And as generative AI technology becomes more responsive and accurate, there’s little reason to doubt that apps will overtake standard search services.
But experts and AI researchers say the technology could lead to the spread of disinformation and misinformation. On Tuesday, Microsoft founder Bill Gates raised many concerns about AI in his op-ed ED, but added that concerns about the technology are no different than what he has seen with other major technological advances, including the Internet. .
Google’s announcement will also be made the next day Bloomberg published an article It accused Google of using third-party moderators to scrutinize Byrd’s responses. Employed by companies such as Accenture, these workers are reportedly paid $14 an hour to work under stressful conditions that determine whether the bot’s answers are accurate on a wide range of topics. there is
However, how quickly companies can improve their products and reduce false responses will also determine how quickly users will start using them as alternatives to outdated search engines.
Daniel Howley Technical editor at Yahoo Finance. He has covered the tech industry since his 2011. You can follow him on Twitter. @Daniel Howley.
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